[…] apparatus designed to elicit quantification may be called for. In short, a rigorous empiricism is needed in order to test the applicability of the Boorstin paradigm to an evaluation of Mormon thought. Historians, philosophers, […]
[…] God’s will closed to our vote, but, accepting, we mime Kekule’s benzene snakes. Body begins with body. The careful abrasion excites, expands the closed space within: fitful air blown in a balloon. This, Bergson’s […]
[…] is a part of this magnificent proliferation of data and research techniques. Its own archives are in the midst of classification by professionally competent standards. There is hope for a new era, in which […]
[…] be related to psychology or theology, to social theory or intellectual history, or to other arts in order to influence us. “Great art impels as well as illustrates. Great poetry persuades as well as […]
A crest of wind runs and rustles through the pinons Below the butte, and it is evening; the moss-green shade Glimmers with lancets and gems of the afternoon sun; The fields beyond glow yellow-gold; […]
[…] for a thesis topic, began to read “Mormon novels.” It seems odd to remember how electrifying were the “forbidden” Vardis Fisher and others I hadn’t heard of: Scowcroft, Whipple, Robertson, Blanche Cannon, even Samuel […]
[…] years pancake. Will anyone gainsay me? This is not merely history; it is literature of a high order. As far as the discovery of Mormonism is concerned, the best may be yet to come, […]
[…] consistently slanted and unreliable view of political events. Therefore, a number of students join the Party in order to gain access to the only source of reliable poli tical information available, namely the Party. […]
Dialogue 4.4 (Winter 1969): 86–103 Lester E Bush wrote in response to Stephen G Taggart’s book which the author tried to show that the Church came from abololonist ideas because the Church was orginially […]
[…] Christ in these the last days: “He was surely a true Prophet, Seer and Revelator,” who presided over Christ’s Church for many years. I learned from my parents that David O. McKay was the […]